Stone v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably T.O. Stanley Boot Co. v. Bank of El Paso (1993), Spoljaric v. Percival Tours, Inc. (1986)
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Edward Thompson Co. v. Sawyers · Rapid Transit Railway Co. v. Smith · Chambers v. Wyatt · Borger v. Brand, Commissioner · Texas & N. O. Ry. Co. v. Thompson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . Where, as here, the representation is a promise to do something in the future and there exists at the time of the representation an intention not to perform, there is the representation of an existing fact. While a mere failure to perform is not sufficient to prove the existence of an intention not to perform at the time the promise is made, where the party allegedly making the promise denies making the promise, there is sufficient evidence to support a finding that there was the absence of intention to perform when it was made.” (Emphasis supplied).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. King · Markman v. Gaitz
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.